About

Heya, I'm Beto! Welcome to my blog.

I work as a software engineer, developing Apache Superset for the company I work for. I'm passionate about making data easily consumable. I started my career building an open-source server for climatological data, used by the IPCC for their Assessment Report and by the Danish navy to remove chemical weapons out of Syria. I created an open-source semantic layer, and these days I'm working on a catalog of semantic charts called Glyph.

Making music is my other passion. I've written hundreds of songs, and FAWM is a big part of my life. I make music as Æolian Gray (previously: bunnylol, Elesimo, The Fishermen & the Priestess), using synthesizers, guitar, and cassette tapes loops. I like using open-source for my music as well: my DAW is Ardour, which I run on Guix with open-source plugins.

I donate to the EFF, the ACLU, the Internet Archive, and Guix. I've been vegan 🌱 for almost 10 years — for the animals, for the planet, and for my health.

Like probably every blog in the world, this one is a work-in-progress. You can subscribe to my posts and interact via WebMentions. If you login, you can leave likes and comments; if your site has a Micropub endpoint they can be stored there instead. My blog follows IndieWeb principles, especially about owning your data.

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More to come!